boat vs Upstash Box

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and Upstash Box costs $0.10 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. Upstash Box runs containers.

Updated Oct 14, 2026

boat

Persistent Ubuntu VMs with SSH, Docker and a desktop.

Isolation: Full VM
Free tier: Free trial with 25 hours
Max session: No limit

Visit site boat profile

Upstash Box

Isolated cloud containers that give AI agents a computer.

Isolation: Container
Free tier: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Max session: Not listed

Visit site Upstash Box profile

What is different

10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

Field

boat

Upstash Box

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Upstash Box: $0.10
Storage: boat: Free; Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Upstash Box: Active CPU time only
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Upstash Box: Up to 1,000
Isolation: boat: Full VM; Upstash Box: Container
SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: boat: MCP; Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

boatdocs.boat.dev/pricingdocs.boat.dev

Upstash Boxupstash.com/pricing/boxupstash.com

Pricing

vCPU, per hour: boat: $0.009; Upstash Box: $0.10
RAM, per GiB-hour: boat: Included; Upstash Box: Included
Storage: boat: Free; Upstash Box: $0.10 per GB per month, including snapshots. Included on Fixed.
Free tier: boat: Free trial with 25 hours; Upstash Box: Free plan, 5 CPU hours per month
Paid plan from: boat: $20 / month; Upstash Box: Pay as you go
Billing: boat: Bundled machine time; Upstash Box: Active CPU time only

Limits

Max session: boat: No limit; Upstash Box: Not listed
Idle stop: boat: Not listed; Upstash Box: After 360 minutes
Largest sandbox: boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB; Upstash Box: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes: boat: Up to 2,000; Upstash Box: Up to 1,000

Platform

Isolation: boat: Full VM; Upstash Box: Container
GPU: boat: No; Upstash Box: Not listed
Snapshots: boat:; Upstash Box:
Pause and resume: boat:; Upstash Box:

Developer

SDKs: boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript; Upstash Box: Python, TypeScript
Integrations: boat: MCP; Upstash Box: LangChain, Vercel AI SDK

Trust

License: boat: Not listed; Upstash Box: Not listed
BYOC: boat: Not listed; Upstash Box: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

Size

boat

Upstash Box

1 vCPU · 2 GiB: boat: $0.009; Upstash Box: $0.100
2 vCPU · 4 GiB: boat: $0.018; Upstash Box: $0.200
4 vCPU · 8 GiB: boat: $0.036; Upstash Box: $0.400

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
You use MCP.
You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.200 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
You need a desktop in the sandbox.

Upstash Box fits when

You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
You use LangChain or the Vercel AI SDK.
Your code waits a lot: CPU is billed only while it is in use.

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